pygtail 0.2

Reads log file lines that have not been read.

A python “port” of [logcheck’s logtail2](http://logcheck.org).

Pygtail reads log file lines that have not been read. It will even handle log files that have been rotated.

Usage

From the command line:

Usage: pygtail.py [options] logfile

Print log file lines that have not been read.

Options:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-o OFFSET_FILE, --offset-file=OFFSET_FILE

File to which offset data is written (default: <logfile>.offset).

-p, --paranoid

Update the offset file every time we read a line (as opposed to only when we reach the end of the file).

In your code:

from pygtail import Pygtail

for line in Pygtail(“some.log”):

sys.stdout.write(line)

Notes

Pygtail does not handle rotated logs that have been compressed. You should configure your log rotation script so that the most recently rotated log is left uncompressed (logrotated, for example, has a delaycompress option that does just that).